Before we begin today, I’d like to direct your attention to my July 30 blog post about alien anal probes. Robert Shaeffer has called to my attention a 1965 report about Barney Hill receiving an anal probe, and I have updated my post accordingly. Now, I’d like to spend some time discussing some European anti-Semitic material that directly impacts my discussion this past weekend of the anti-Semitic conspiracy book that was cited approvingly on Giorgio Tsoukalos’s In Search of Aliens.
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With my lengthy reviews of Ancient Aliens and In Search of Aliens, I’ve been producing 8 article-sized blog posts a week, and that’s getting ridiculous. So instead of another lengthy piece today, you’re getting a short discussion of a weird claim that’s been circulating across the fringe history blogosphere this week. I first encountered it in an article that ran on the Native American Indian Country Today Media Network website last week. The piece claimed that a series of pipes dating back 150,000 years had been found near the city of Delhi (or Delhinga) in the Chinese province of Qinghai in China’s desert west. The article cited the Epoch Times to the effect that tour operators in the vicinity claimed that the pipes, which supposedly lead from a pyramid-shaped mountain to a lake, were the work of extraterrestrials.
In only the second episode of In Search of Aliens, it has quickly become clear that the “aliens” in the title are little more than window dressing for what is otherwise a rather amorphous program that orbits around two foci: Giorgio Tsoukalos’s cult of personality and the broadest definition of fringe culture. This episode, S01E02 “Nazi Time Travelers,” focuses on the so-called Nazi Bell or Die Glocke, a device with which I was not familiar before Ancient Aliens started going on about it on various episodes. Tsoukalos, however, descended into the disturbing in this episode, explicitly citing an anti-Semitic book banned in many Europe countries as a source, and asking a man with documented racist opinions to discuss the Nazi Master Race and their achievements. The sad thing is that I don’t think anyone involved on this show—from Tsoukalos himself down to the production staff—has any idea what kind of material they are putting out on the air.
In reviewing Ancient Aliens there are many levels of consideration I have to weigh in putting together my take on an episode. One is the theoretical: Which claims are worth discussing, and how much detail do I provide in evaluating what they say? The other is quite practical: The show is an hour long, and if I am reviewing it in real time, there is only so much I research I can do during the commercial breaks. This episode, S07E02 “The Tesla Experiment,” falls into the category of practical problems. I don’t know much at all about Nikola Tesla, and it’s hard for me to have much to say about an episode that attempts to expand earlier episodes’ segments on Tesla into a full hour. I can say this: Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) certainly stretches the definition of “ancient” in the show’s title.
The Science Channel’s Unexplained Files will be broadcasting an episode from what Nephilim researcher L. A. Marzulli calls “Nephilim Central” in the Caucasus Mountains. Bruce Fenton, the author of the ridiculous book Ancient Aliens in Australia, will be participating in the network’s search for giant humanoids and has already filmed the segment, set to air sometime in the coming weeks. According to two blog posts from Fenton, the team uncovered two major discoveries in the Republic of Georgia: the tomb of a giant and a castle made from melted human bone.
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